Communicate

Definition: Communicate

Communicate

Verb

1. Transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees".

2. Transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist".

3. Transfer to another; "communicate a disease".

4. Join or connect; "The rooms communicated".

5. Be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas; "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; Do you communicate well with your advisor?".

6. Administer communion; in church.

7. Receive Communion, in the Catholic church.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "communicate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Communicate

Giving

Pay; render, impart, communicate.

Information

Let fall, mention, express, intimate, represent, communicate, make known; publish; notify, signify, specify, convey the knowledge of.

Rite

Attend services, attend mass, go to mass, hear mass; take the sacrament, receive the sacrament, receive communion, attend the sacrament, partake of the sacrament, partake of communion; communicate; receive extreme unction; confess, go to confession, receive penance; anele.

Worship

Work out one's salvation; go to church; attend service, attend mass; communicate; (rite).

Crosswords: Communicate

But when I was about 18 and my dad and I couldn't communicate about anything at all, we could still talk about baseball (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal)

I don't think that you have a clue what it's like to communicate with these kids (Donnie Darko; writing credit: Richard Kelly)

If the jury is deadlocked, they're put up in a hotel so that they cant communicate with the outside world (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

People communicate only when they are being themselves (Maude; writing credit: Colette Deréal)

Pray? No, I communicate. (Harold and Maude; writing credit: Colin Higgins)

I FEEL ISOLATED, DON'T WANT TO COMMUNICATE (Never Ever; performing artist: All Saints)

Well, we've got a right to communicate (Whip Appeal; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface, Perri Smith)

He rarely spoke, often choosing to communicate with various grunt and gurgles (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus)

How can we communicate, (Understanding; performing artist: Xscape)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Babytalk: Strengthen Your Child's Ability to Listen, Understand, and Communicate (reference)

• Dolphin Chronicles: A Fascinating, Moving Tale of One Woman's Quest to Understand-And Communicate With-The Sea's Most Mysterious Creatures (reference)

• Finding Common Ground: How to Communicate With Those Outside the Christian Community ... While We Still Can (reference)

• From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public (reference)

• Sign With Your Baby: How to Communicate With Infants Before They Can Speak (reference)

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Periodicals

• Communicate (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Baby Speech An adult's guide to helping your little one communicate (reference)

• IT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAY THAT COUNTS- learning to communicate with more than words (reference)

• Winning Colors® :Leadership, Team Building, Self-esteem, Conflict Resolution. How to Communicate Successfully. (reference)

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Music

• Communicate (reference)

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High Tech

• 01 COMMUNICATION Communicate! Pro v5 (Windows) (reference)

• Communicate Pro 2.0 (reference)

• Communicate! 10.0 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Over 4,000 miles of wire laid to communicate with sound and flash ranging bases Image from the 8th FAOB Album. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Figure 31. Aime messenger ca. 1843. The Frenchman Georges Aime was among the fir st to systematically employ the principle of a messenger in order to communicate with submerged instruments. The messenger was sent down the line and activated some form of opening or closing mechanism on the sampling instrument. Aime used only solid messengers which had to have the line or cable run through them. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 20. A model devised to demonstrate the quantity of common salt in the sea. The idea is that if all the salt in the sea were to evaporate it would cover an area and volume equal to the above sea-level area and volume of Africa. Dr. Walter Stahlberg conceived this idea as a means to communicate to the public amount of salt in the sea. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Communicate Before You Medicate. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

My name is Fairchild. I mean what I say. You're going to run the Liberta ashore on Sand Island. Mr. White will communicate with the engine room. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The German Government shall communicate forthwith particulars thereof to all the European Governments. (reference)

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This image, so nearly identical with the living Pearl, seemed to communicate somewhat of its own shadowy and intangible quality to the child herself

The prioress alone can communicate with strangers

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Health

Speech therapy may improve the individual's ability to communicate. (references)

In general, treatment strives to improve a person's ability to communicate. (references)

Without a retina, the eye cannot communicate with the brain, making vision impossible. (references)

Business

If necessary, hire a professional interpreter/translator to communicate your message effectively. (references)

Government employees should be able to communicate with each other and share information electronically. (references)

The distributor is also not obligated to communicate market research information to the foreign manufacturer. (references)

Children

Czech Republic

In addition Romani "assistant teachers" are placed into primary and special schools to help teachers communicate with Romani pupils and encourage cooperation between schools and Romani parents. (references)

Civil Liberties

Vietnam

A central tenet of the Cao Dai faith is belief in the ability to communicate with the spirits through the use of a medium. (references)

Ukraine

Under the terms of the new Citizenship Law, refugees may acquire citizenship if they have lived legally in the country for 3 years (instead of 5 years for other foreigners) and can communicate in the Ukrainian language. (references)

Discrimination

Georgia

Ethnic Armenians, Azeris, Greeks, Abkhaz, Ossetian, and Russian communities usually communicate in their native languages or in Russian. (references)

Economic History

Netherlands

In the business market, ISDN lines are mostly used to access the Internet, to communicate with subsidiaries and for tele-work. (references)

New Zealand

Retailers to communicate to the public new products or purchasing opportunities use telemarketing and mass media advertising most often. (references)

Human Rights

Armenia

An office created by the Procurator General in July to communicate with international observers was responsive to requests for information; however, information about criminal cases stemming from elections fraud was incomplete. (references)

South Africa

It also provides that every detained person has the right to be informed promptly of the reasons for the detention; to be advised promptly of the right to remain silent and the consequences of waiving that right; to be charged within 48 hours of arrest; to be detained in conditions of human dignity; to consult with legal counsel at every stage of the legal process; to communicate with relatives, medical practitioners, and religious counselors; and to be released (with or without bail) unless the interests of justice require otherwise. (references)

Minorities

Haiti

The inability to communicate in French long has limited the political and economic opportunities available to the majority of the population. (references)

Political Economy

Mexico

On October 30, the Government initiated a roundtable mechanism, through the Secretariat of Government, to communicate directly with human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGO's) on reform issues and protection of human rights defenders. (references)

Political Rights

Brunei

These leaders communicate constituents' wishes through a variety of channels, including periodic meetings chaired by the Home Affairs Minister, with several officials appointed by the Sultan. (references)

Trade

Guinea

Often, customs and SGS do not communicate effectively and products remain at the port or airport for extended periods. (references)

Travel

Guyana

Many firms operating in the remote interior locations access satellite telephone links or communicate by radio. (references)

Uk

British executives communicate more by letter and fax than by telephone, although the Internet is widely used, and e-mail is becoming more common. (references)

Austria

Though many business people are able to communicate in English, the importance of German-language trade literature, catalogs, and instructions for the use and servicing of products cannot be overemphasized. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "communicate": communicate itself ♦ communicate with ♦ communicate with smb.. Additional references.

Ending with "communicate": ex-communicate, re-communicate.

Afrikaans

meedeel (acquaint, announce, inform, let know, report). (various references)

Albanian

transmetoj (air, broadcast, conduct, give, pipe, put across, reach, relay, telecast, translate, transmit), njoftoj (advertise, advertize, advise, announce, break, convey, cry, give out, inform, instruct, message, nark, notify, page, placard, post, report, tell), lidhem (associate, attach, bind, cohere, connect, correlate, interconnexion, link, relate, tie), kumtoj (foreshadow, portend), komunikoj (intercommunicate, mix), kam lidhje (concern, correlate, refer). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقل (alien, alienate, assign, bandy, carriage, carry, carry forward, convection, convey, conveyance, copy, deliver, freight, go cart, hand on, handling, pass on, pipe, portage, promotion, propagate, relocate, remove, reproduction, route, shift, take away, tote, transfer, transference, transfuse, transit, transmission, transmit, transport, transportation), ‏تناول العشاء الرباني, ‏تحادث, ‏إتصل بعضه ببعض, ‏إتصل (approach, connect, contact, join, pertain, reach, relate, respect), ‏أبلغ (announce, convey, denounce, notify, report). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съобщавам се, съобщавам (advertise, advertize, announce, apprise, apprize, convey, impart, inform, let know, notify, post, report, tell), споделям (divide, partake, share in, sympathize, unbosom), заразявам (contaminate, defile, infect, plague, poison, stuff), причестявам се (receive). (various references)

Chinese 

轉達 (convey, pass on), 轉告 (pass on, transmit), 通信 (Communicated, Communicating, Communication), 溝通 . (various references)

Czech

sdìlit (advise, break, convey, impart, open, tell), přenést (carry forward, depute, transfer, translate, transplant), přenášet (beam, relay), oznámit (announce, declare, disclose, give out, inform, let know, notify, publish, report, return), být ve styku, být ve spojení. (various references)

Danish

tilkoblingen til traktoren er saa fleksibel,at traktorens rokkebevaegelser ikke overfoeres til hoevenderen (that the tractor's rocking does not communicate itself to the tedder, the tedder is so loosely attached to the tractor), personligt at kommunikere med deres kilder (to communicate personally with sources of information), mens systemet med den udspaendte traad kraever brug af en wire til mekanisk at give meddelelse om positionen fra havbunden til overfladen,benytter de akustiske systemer lydboelger under vandet som den noedvendige kommunikationsforbindelse (the acoustic systems use underwater sound waves as the required communication link, while the taut line system requires use of a wire to mechanically communicate position from the ocean bottom to the surface). (various references)

Dutch

meedelen (acquaint, announce, inform, let know, report), mededelen (acquaint, announce, inform, let know, report), berichten (acquaint, inform, report). (various references)

Esperanto

kontaĝi, komuniki (report). (various references)

Faeroese

upplýsa (acquaint, inform, report), kunngera (publish, report, reveal). (various references)

Farsi 

مکاتبه کردن , مراوده کردن , کاغذنویسی کردن , گفتگوکردن (Argue, Discuss, Negotiate, Speak). (various references)

Finnish

olla yhteydessä jonkin kanssa (be connected with, communicate with, have a connection with, have connections with), asettua yhteyteen jonkun kanssa (communicate with, get into touch with). (various references)

French

communiquer (convey). (various references)

Frisian

oanstekke (infect). (various references)

German

mitteilen (acquaint, advise, announce, break, disclose, impart, inform, let know, notify, report, tell, to acquaint, to advise, to disclose, transmit). (various references)

Greek 

επικοινωνώ (commune). (various references)

Hebrew 

להיות בקשר (be in touch), להתקשר (contact, get in touch), להעביר (carry, convey, hand, hand down, hand over, lead over, make over, pass, pass on, put across, remove, switch, transfer, transmit, transport). (various references)

Hungarian

közöl (impart, intimate, publish, to announce, to descry, to give forth, to inform sy, to intimate, to let know, to quote, to report, to transmit), értekezik (dissert, dissertate, to consult, to discourse, to dissert). (various references)

Indonesian

pemberitahuan (announcement, notice, premonition). (various references)

Italian

comunicare (impart, intimate, make known, put across, put over, report, signal, tell), infettare (become infected, contaminate, infect), annunciare (advertise, announce, broach, call, call out, enounce, give, give notice, Herald, intimate, post, report). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

伝える　 (convey, informone's, transmit, travel), コミュニケーション科学基礎研究所 (choral, collaboration, collaborative, collaborator, collage, collagen, collie, column, columnist, COM, COMECON, comedian, comedy, comet, Cominform, comment, commentator, comment-out, committee, common, common carrier, common language, common sense, Commonwealth Day, Communication Science Laboratories, communications intelligence, communications satellite, communicator, communism, communist, Communist Information Bureau, community, community care, community center, community college, community media, community paper, community school, community sports, computer output microfilm system, comsat, corrida, corundum, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Komintern, Komsomol, Korea, operator in a telemarketing business, stand-alone feature article framed by a box). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

コミュニケート . (various references)

Korean 

교통하십시요. (various references)

Manx

insh (announce, communication; island, coverage, crack, crack as joke, declare, divulgation, divulge, narrate, narration, report, speech, utterance), cur cummyn da, cur (consign, give, lay, lead, place, put, render, site), coyrt (donate, give, giving, hand over, lead, service). (various references)

Papiamen

komuniká (report). (various references)

Pig Latin

ommunicatecay.(various references)

Polish

powiadamiać (report), komunikować (report). (various references)

Portuguese

comunicar (acquaint, advise, counsel, forestall, get over, give an account, give notice, impart, inform, notify, report, tell, to communicate, transmit). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

comunicar (to communicate). (various references)

Romanian

comunica (acquaint, break the news, commune, convey, impart, inform, intercommunicate, intimate, tell), transmite (assign, bestow, carry, circulate, confer, consign to, convey, deliver, deliver over, demise, devolve, give, hand, pass, perpetuate, record, refer, remit, render, send, transfer, transfuse, transmit), se împãrtãşi (commune). (various references)

Romansch

communitgar (to communicate). (various references)

Russian 

связываться (connect, get in touch, interconnect, interconnexion), сообщаться (intercommunicate), сообщать (acquaint, advise s, announce, communicate to, convey, impart, inform, lend, let ~ know, let us know, report, say [], says, send word, tell, telling, told), сообщить (inform, reportage), снестись, передавать;общаться, передавать (abalienate, circulate, consign, convey, deliver, deliver over, devolve, give, hand over, hand over to, impart, leave, pass, pass on, reach, relegate, repeat, sign away, transfer, transfuse, transmit, turn over). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

saopštiti (apprise, apprize, convey, inform, notify), preneti (assign, broadcast, carry, carry forward, carry over, convey, negotiate, relay, remise, translate), komunicirati, informisati (brief, inform). (various references)

Spanish

comunicar (announce, break, connect, connect up, convey, deliver, get on to, get over, get through, give, hand on, impart, infect, inform, notify, plug in, put across, put over, report, tell), informar (acquaint, advise, announce, apprise, apprize, become acquainted, brief, carry, enlighten, inform, let know, put up, report, tell), inficionar (infect, infected, taint), contagiar (infect, spread), comunicarse (break, commune). (various references)

Swedish

kommunicera (intercommunicate). (various references)

Turkish

temasa geçmek (contact), nakletmek (bear, bring forward, carry, carry forward, carry over, convey, freight, graft, implant, recount, remove, route, ship, transfer, transplant, transport, wear), iletişim kurmak (get into touch), içini dökmek (bare one's heart, get smth. off one's chest, let one's hair down, open one's heart, open oneself, pour out one's heart, unbosom oneself, unburden one's heart, unburden oneself), haberleşmek (correspond, intercommunicate, speak), geçirmek (bash, carry, come through, conduct, Dot, dot smb. one, extrude, fetch, get over, get through, make pass, outstay, pass, pass away, pass on, post, put in, reach, scarf, screw, see off, see smb. to the door, show smb. to the door, slip, spend, spin out, stick, swipe, take in, transfer, transmit, undergo, while away, wile away, work out), dertleşmek, bulaştırmak (bedabble, bedaub, besmear, blur, contaminate, corrupt, daub, dirty, drag, embroil, entangle, imbrue, implicate, infect, involve, inweave, propagate, slush, smear, smudge, splodge, splotch, spread, taint, transmit, twine), birbirine açılmak, bildirmek (acquaint, advise, affirm, announce, annunciate, declare, enunciate, give forth, give out, Herald, impart, indicate, inform, intimate, issue, let know, let smb. know, Lodge, notice, notify, offer, pass, proclaim, pronounce, put up, report, say, serve notice, signal, signalize, state, tell, vote), bağlantılı olmak (be linked, cohere, corelate, correlate, interconnect), anlatmak (account for, be enunciative of, clarify, describe, explain, explicate, express, narrate, put smth. across, recount, relate, report, show forth, tell, unload). (various references)

Ukrainian

спілкуватися (associate, commune, company, consort, converse, intercommunicate, intermingle, mate, mingle, socialize), сполучатися (blend, conjoin, conjugate, connect, couple), підтримувати зв'язок, причащатися (commune), повідомляти (acquaint, admonish, advertise, advertize, advise, announce, apprise, apprize, convey, delate, give, give notice, inform, notice, notify, publicize, report, transmit), передавати (assign, attribute, circulate, deliver, devolve, give, give over, hand down, hand on, hand over, pass, present, reach, send, transfer, transmit). (various references)

communicabit, communicabo, communicant, communicantes, communicare, communicat, communicaveris, communicaverit, communicaverunt, communicavit, communices, communicet, communico, defero, inpertiar, inpertientes, inpertire. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "communicate": communicated, communicatee, communicatees, communicates. (additional references)

Words ending with "communicate": excommunicate, intercommunicate, overcommunicate. (additional references)

Words containing "communicate": excommunicated, excommunicates, intercommunicated, intercommunicates, overcommunicated, overcommunicates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Communicate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: commencate, communacate, communecate, communicade, communicae, communicare, communicata, communicatee, communicater, communicatr, communicatta, communicatye, communicete, Communidade, comunacate, comunecate, comunic, comunicate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: comminute.

-3 letters: acetonic, aconitum, ammonite, coinmate, cuneatic, encomium, meconium, neumatic.

-4 letters: account, aconite, ammonic, amniote, auction, automen, caution, centimo, cocaine, coenact, comatic, cometic, comment, commune, commute, conceit, encomia, manitou, manumit, momenta, nematic, oceanic, omentum, tinamou, tonemic, tunicae, uncomic.

-5 letters: accent, acetic, acetin, acetum, action, acumen, aecium, aeonic, ammine, ammino, amount, anemic, anomic, anomie, atomic.

+1 letter: communicated, communicatee, communicates.

+2 letters: communicatees, communicative, excommunicate.

+3 letters: excommunicated, excommunicates, excommunicator.

+4 letters: communicatively, excommunicating, excommunication, excommunicative, excommunicators, incommunicative, overcommunicate, uncommunicative.

+5 letters: excommunications, intercommunicate, noncommunicative, overcommunicated, overcommunicates.